Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | And Rufus the other day , my brother and sister all going up to Sheila , the dog 's right there , I 'm going hi ! |
2 | A century and a half later , of course , many new fossil discoveries and much critical analysis have greatly advanced our understanding of dinosaurs , although not to the extent that the controversy and emotion first stirred up by Owen has entirely abated . |
3 | Not the young Francis either , in whom I stood a better hope of experiencing the odd happy memory , but Francis as I 'd last experienced him with the tang of his Lucky Strikes , last night 's whisky and dejection all togged up as joie de vivre . |
4 | And Mr Slipshod slithered back into the Town Hall . |
5 | The Lord has given her Psalm 91 and Psalm 121 to hold on to and she knows that He is in control of the situation . |
6 | The table and chairs and windowboxes all fit in with the period of the house . |
7 | When we arrived , Heathcliff , Hareton , and Joseph all came out of the house to inspect the child . |
8 | The nurse had n't been round yet to close the curtains and Charles Paris and Harry Chiltern looked out on galvanized frames of blackness . |
9 | Greg , Pippa , Emily , Tom and Bill all came over from America , and stayed with us for eight days . |
10 | The King , the Queen and their lords and ladies all came down to the beach to wave goodbye . |
11 | ‘ Are n't you and Charles due to go off on holiday soon ? ’ she queried , when tea and biscuits were duly dispensed to Lucy and she could sit down on a wicker-backed chair and sip her own . |
12 | The opening episode of ‘ The Daleks ’ , ‘ The Dead Planet ’ premiers the use of Inlay in Doctor Who for one of the most historic shots in the programme 's history — the awesome moment when the Doctor , Ian , Barbara and Susan first look down at the glittering towers of the Dalek city , gleaming , some miles distant , in the rays of the setting sun . |
13 | THE first Class of ‘ 92 sits expectantly — 40 young men and women ready to go out into the world . |
14 | My mind is like a stage , with the actors , their costumes , props , scripts and agents all streaming on from stage right . |
15 | But Class 1 looked back at him listlessly . |
16 | Then , while Henry Ii headed back to Anjou , Richard and Alfonso of Aragon besieged Bertrand de Born in Hautefort . |
17 | In 1170 he had made a bid to capture Bourges itself but withdrew when Louis VII came up with an army . |
18 | Iraqi forces were already massing on the Kuwait border when Flight 149 took off from Heathrow at 6.05pm on August 1 , 1990 after a two-hour delay . |
19 | No oceanographer , when Balboa first strolled down to the gently lapping waters on the morning of that day , he had no reason to suppose that the ceremony — which would involve him standing ankle-deep in the water , the better to annex it — could not begin on schedule . |